Kevin González is an extraordinary young poet at the beginning of a promising career. His poems are smart, funny, and extremely self-aware in a daring, provocative way. González never takes the easy way out as he deals with the complexities of his heritage—his place, or lack of place, is this strange country called America. His dazzling imagery and range of associations do not obscure the expansive heart at the center of these wonderful poems.

—Jim Daniels